The mission was to relieve the Realmgates' Liberator guardians, and allow them to join the fight at the front lines. Immediately upon entering the realm of Hysh, the Stormcast knew the mission parameters had changed. A Wyrd Moon hung in the sky, and the only welcome the brotherhood found were whispered rumours and the scattered ashes of raided homesteads. The Eternals were no longer marching to relieve rested troops - they were marching to avenge them. . . At first, the Stormcast Eternals marched alone - their small brotherhood lead by their Sequitor Prime. The stars were his guide, but in the Realm of Light, stars alone sledom lead a traveller true - and the Wyrd Moon sought to see them lost to the sands. And so - they recruited. With each roaming township, with each wandering camp of Dracoline herdsmen, with each caravan of collapsible buildings - the brotherhood grew. Hunters, Bounty Killers, Brigands and Lawmen alike joined in their wake - lead by a young Marshal, rallied by the sight of Stormforged steel, and the promise of a counter-attack against the creatures that plague the Mirrorsands. . . At the Battle of the Four Gates, the Stormcast Eternals lost far more than just their names. Before the onslaught of savage Greenskin raiders, glass-armoured Moonclan assaults, and - ultimately - the Weirdnob Shaman that united them - the Stormcast fell, one by one, returning to Azyr in bolts of anguished lightning. Even their leader was lost - desperately shielding the young Marshal from the Shaman's eldritch green energies. . . Of the hundred souls that fought for Order that day, only sixteen survived. A Stormcast artilleryman, a slew of wounded militiamen - and a young Marshal, burned to the bone by Greenskin sorcery. The rest - they felt the hand of Nagash on their shoulders. Their spirits flew from broken bodies, drifting inexoribly to the land where the dead will always go. At the last - they stopped. The wail of Nagash assailed them. He raged and He screamed - but Sigmar had claimed the dead, and he would not be denied. #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday23 #warhammer #ageofsigmar #sequitorprime #sequitor #mirrorsandrangers https://www.instagram.com/p/BnUGh3rDCcV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wyvh3kvcgn80
